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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
3
Sedalia church directory lists Taylor Chapel with morning service at 11 a.m. Sunday School at 2 p.m. class meeting at 3 p.m. Evening service 8 p.m. Epworth League 6 30 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting 8 p.m. Rev R Davis pastor residence 107 E Cooper St. Other pastor Thurman and H R Brown secretary noted.
Morning services at 11 a m Sunday School 2 p m Class meeting 345 p m Hepworth League 930 p m Evening Service 7345 p m Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening Christian Band meeting every Friday night Welcome from Rev T L Scott Pastor 313 W Clay Mrs Mamie Walker Secy
Morgas Street Baptist Church advertises Sunday School at 2 30 pm and preaching at 11 00 am and 7 30 pm with a welcome to all. Rev J H Downing signs the notice. Also Guan's Chapel Free Baptist Church presents Sunday School at 11 00 am and 11 80 am with first and third Sundays for preaching at 11 am and 7 80 pm. Prayer Meeting Tuesday night Covenant Meeting Friday night pews free and all welcome. Rev E D Burns pastor with Zula Whitley and Mabel Williams as clerks.
Local notes report visits by Rev. Dennis Payton and Rev. Alexander Hubbard, praise for Lincoln High School events led by Prof. C. C. Hubbard, and comments on city finance. Laura Jackson returns to the city on the 27inst and Miss Eujetta Diggs comes back to Moberly. The Elke picnic at Liberty Park is praised and Hattie Berry visits to help with graduation prep. A call for temperance and critique of campaign tactics appears amid social and school updates.
A collection of social mentions includes visits and travel by residents such as Harrison Dinsmore in Warrensburg and Orris Jackson en route to Glasgow, with Prof. H. F. Thompson in the city. Mrs Nannie Smith heads to Hughesville, Mrs Jamison and two daughters travel to Georgetown, and Lucy Reed of Kansas City visits her mother Salina Meyers. Annie and Fannie Johnson attend a basket meeting in Georgetown. Charles Holmes and Jim Woods open a tailor shop at 113 East Main, and Mesdames Abbott and Moore are visiting Kansas City and Excelsior Springs. A rail incident caused injuries and fatalities. Debates arise over railroads and liquor. Ambrose Bentley welcomes a 9-pound girl born May 30 at 2:30 am, attended by Hodges of Sedalia and her mother Williams, who has been visiting from Keytesville.
The Seventeenth Annual Lincoln High School commencement was held Friday night May 29 at the Sedalia theatre. Twelve graduates faced a large audience with a program of chorus pieces and students delivering orations including Mary Jackman Luella Tarleton Veanie Burris and Lucile Miller.
The 1908 commencement program featured Flynn delivering an outstanding topic The Negro in America and Mia Ona Ruby as valedictorian with the Ambition address. A chorus piece A Warrior Bold followed. Prof Buchanan spoke, diplomas were conferred, remarks by Dr Cole and Hon Mr Johnson, benediction by Rev Hubbard, marking Lincoln’s largest class in 15 years.
The St Joseph district Sunday School convention meets at Armstrong June 10 to 14, 1908. The schedule lists daily morning devotions, sermons, papers on group meetings, childhood training, spiritual and habit focus, reports from Sunday schools, and an outing on Saturday. Key leaders and speakers include Mrs E Whaley Rev Monroe Denny Rev Leroy Woolrich Prof K Thompson Rev G W Reever and Dr J Will Jackson. The event closes with installation of officers and adjournment.
An archaic classified style notice offers Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills for sale. It promises regulation of the bowela with a shipment of 60 doses priced at four cents each, mentioning Smallowt milaest and surest.
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